Mail-bag



(No Model.)

W. R. GORDON.

MAIL BAG.

No. 535,001. 1 r Patented Mar.' 5,1895.

MMM v NITED STATES PATEN u WILLIAM R. GORDON, OF OSOEOLA, SOUTHCAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO WALTER O. NISBET, OF WAXHAW, NORTHCAROLINA.

MAIL-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,001, dated March 5,1895.

Application filed December 8,1894. Serial No. 531,358- (No model.)

.T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. GORDON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Osceola, in the county of Lancaster and State of SouthCarolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMail-Bags; and

I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which toit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to I5 make a mail bag with asimple, secure and efficient fastening.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my bag, showing themouth open; Fig. 2, an elevation, showing the sliding tongue zo platewith its fixed guide-plate, and Fig. 3 a modification thereof. Fig. 4 isa horizontal section.

In the drawings, A represents the bag of any suitable material andprovided with the slots a arranged on opposite sides of its mouth so asto register when the two sides are brought together. These slots areeyeleted with metal preferably and are vertical in position.

B is the only flap used and this has three,

3o more or less, staples on the inside and a lock staple on the outsiderespectively designated by the letters b and b. I preferably use inconnection with the staples a riveted plate O and disks D.

5 5 J ust beneath the Hap B, I make fast to the body of the bag andfasten the transverse plate E, having, on its opposite sides, theguide-flanges e under which is moved back and forth the sliding plate Fprovided with apertures f, and, in those apertures, are located 4o thetongues f. Y

G is the hasp which is hinged at g to the end of the tongue plate F andfulcrumed at g on the guide-plate E, being provided near the free endwith the slot g2.

When the flap B is folded over the mouth of the bag, the staples b passthrough the eyeleted slots a on both sides of the mouth of the bag andthrough the iixed plate E and sliding plate F. As the hasp is forceddown 5o so as to receive the staple h', the tongues f are drawn into thestaples b, when the hasp lock is applied to staple b in the usual way.

What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A mailbag having the opposite slots a on the sides of its mouth, asingle iap B with two or more staples on one side and a lockstaple onthe other, the fixed transverse plate E with the guide-anges e, theplate F having 6o apertures fand tongues f', and the hasp G hinged totongue-plate, fulcrumed tol guideplate and provided with a slotg2,'al1com bined and arranged substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM R. GORDON.

Vitnesses:

T. W. KENDRICK, J. D. STEEBLE.

